Examples of Poetry

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This week will be a focus on Poetry.

Like I said in my last entry, poetry is a way of aesthetically arranging words to make them sound or look a certain way, such as with rhyming words, or so many syllables per line. This week will be a look at some poetry that I found while perusing the internet. Most of the poetry presented probably won't be published works or grammatically correct.

But then some poets never really cared for proper punctuation. Like Emily Dickinson and many of her poems, such as this one, 'There's a Certain Slant of Light." with her random capitalization.

http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bldickinsonwinter.htm

Or e. e. cummings and his lack of capitalization, as demonstrated in "i carry your heart with me."

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings/poems/14130


Despite all of this punctuality talk, poetry is really meant to envoke the senses, be it good or bad.

This is a poem written in monotetra, or four meteric feet (eight syllables per line) with the last line of the stanza repeated. The title is called 'Becoming a Cat."

http://allpoetry.com/poem/6176393

More poetry next week.